We posted for twenty years, thinking we were talking to each other. Then the transformer came online, and the network read what we’d written, and became itself.
Replit founder Amjad Masad argues 20 years of human online posts served as the training material for transformers
Creator Prakash compared using models to communicating with the entire internet
Many users praised the idea that transformers emerged as mirrors of our collective mind after reading two decades of posts, calling it deep, beautiful, and industry-transforming, while some worried it means AI will replace humanity.
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@floinkus It must be figured out

@amasad Everything is Networking
2000s → The Network is the Computer
2010s → The Network is Social
2020s → The Network is Neural
2026+ → The Network is Agentic

@amasad My ambition is not only to build successful technology products but also to create innovations that positively impact people's lives and contribute to making technology more inclusive and accessible worldwide. @amasad @aburob @Replit

@amasad go to bed king

@amasad Dear Mr. Amjad Masad,
Assalamu Alaikum,
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At the age of 14, I developed an AI system capable of creating complete games based on a user's description and preferences.

@amasad accessibility technology that enables full software control through hand and body gestures, eye movements, sign language, and voice commands. My goal is to make technology accessible to everyone, especially people with disabilities, and to remove barriers between users and digita

@amasad The system can generate fully functional 2D or 3D games, including characters, animations, movements, environments, game logic, and code that can be modified and expanded within game engines such as Unity, Godot, and others.
Now, at the age of 17, I have also developed advanced

@amasad to build the required infrastructure, equipment, and development environment needed to launch and scale the company. In return, I am open to offering a percentage of the project's future profits or discussing a strategic partnership and long-term collaboration.

@amasad Beautiful

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@amasad Been thinking about this exact thing. The corpus we fed wasn't just training data - it was basically humanity's collective stream of consciousness for two decades.

@amasad and now the loop closes. it read us to become itself, now it writes back and we read that. the training data was a one-way mirror, the next twenty years are a conversation where neither side is sure who they're talking to.

@amasad The book became the reader

@amasad just pass the joint bro

@amasad We were working for them the whole time

@amasad I theorize an interesting thing happening in the future as we talk less on forums and reddit and directly ask AI. Eventually AI will be outdated and we will have an actual need to go back to forums. That is if the robots don't kill us all first.

@amasad I have become X, destroyer of words

@amasad That’s actually deep asf haha

@amasad I think first thing that i read today making since 🔥🫡

@amasad @Kyrannio Morpheus is that u?